The Heart of Community Organizing Flashcards
Approach in social analysis that focuses on the life energies, strengths, best practices.
Asset-focused approach
Strengthening the capabilities of individuals, organization, and institutions to ensure sustainability of development efforts and the broad distribution of their benefits.
Capacity development
People-empowering role of facilitating development.
Catalyst
A description of the new forms of associations to represent thr interest of the people themselves alongside the state, economy, and political society.
Civil society
An institution, whether non-government organization or government organization, church-based organization committed to task of community development.
Development organization
Strength, vitality, force.
Life energy
Private voluntary organizations; societal development agencies or alternative support or cause-oriented groups that sre non-profit oriented or legal, which are committed to the task of development, and established primarily for socio-economic services, civic, religious, charitable and/or social welfare.
Non-government organiztions
Action-reflection-action
Praxis
A process through which stakeholders can influence and share control over development initiatives, and over the decisions and resources that affect themselves.
Participatory development
Process of enabling the people to gradually take over responsibility through capacity development.
Phase over
Approach in social analysis that focuses on the problems and their cause-effect relationships at the micro and macro levels.
Problem-focused approach
Three distinct but interrelated aspects of development process: people benefit from the development; people’s contribution to development; and people’s involvement in the decision-making regarding the nature and process of development.
People’s participation
Process of expansion to more quality benefits to more people over a wider geographical area more quickly, more equitably, and more lastingly.
Scaling-up
A process that elevates the individual reflections to a shared experience of developing a collective consciousness particularly to generate lessons and insights.
Social learning
The parties, individual or institutions, with intnerest in and/or affected by development initiatives, programs or projects.
Stakeholders
What is the essence of community organizing?
People’s participation
What is the heart of community organizing?
The process
What are the four fundamental elements of community organizing?
Community people, community development worker, CO process, and community consciousness
What is the stage of CO?
The community
This consists of people who have different interest in development.
Community or stakeholders
Those who may be expected to benefit or lose from certain development initiatives.
Difectly affected
Those with interest in outcomes.
Indirectly affected
Those line agency staff; local regional and national government officials.
Government-elected official
They are few in number; and they constitute an internally cohesive, well- organized groups.
The haves
They are politically weak, unorganized, poor, landless, unskilled.
The have-nots
The ______ include women and children, who make up its large proportion.
The poor
By virtue of their race and ethnicity as well as those disadvantaged by circumstances beyond their control, such as disabilities and natural or man-made disaster.
The marginalized
The partner of the people in development.
Community development worker
It is a process that facilitates participatory development in which “stakeholders can influence and share control over development initiatives, and over the decisions and resource that affect themselves.”
CO Process
This brings together the community people and the community development worker in a helping process.
Community consciousness
The aim is to get the community’s sanction and commitment to engage in a partnership with the CDW/DO for participatory development.
Entry into the community
This phase requires some basic considerations and preparations from the CDW and the DO which s/he belongs.
Pre-entry
This refers to the basic continuing effort by which the CDW becomes on with the CP by integrating himself/herself in the community life,
Immersion with the people
This phase of the process signals that the CP and CDW are already prepared to work together as partners in development.
CO proper
Aimed at enhancing participation in managing development initiatives.
CO proper
A conscious effort of understanding the reality of the community life as basis for planning.
Social analysis
Promotes greater awareness and increased abilities to identify different problems and their causes at the micro and macro levels.
Problem-focused approach
This kind of approach argues that communities can be brought to life if local assers, rather than local needs, becomes the focus.
Asset-focused
This ensures the sustainability of the organization and its development initiatives.
Core group formation
The four critical elements of capacity development.
Capacity development intervention, organizational capacity, organizational performance, development impact
Is a form of functional education, which can contribute to empowerment and partnership in the sense of a shared assessment and project management.
Monitoring and evaluation
This participatory mechanism pertains to the translation into local languages and dissemination of written materials using various media.
Mechanisms for sharing information
This participatory mechanism pertains to consultative meetings, field visits, and interviews.
Mechanisms for consultations
This participatory mechanism pertains to participatory assessments and evaluations, and beneficiary assessment.
Mechanisms for joint assessment
This participatory mechanism pertains to the particpatory planning techniques.
Mechanisms for shared decision-making
This participatory mechanism pertains to the formation of joint committees with stakeholder representative.
Mechanisms for collaboration
This participatory mechanism pertains to the decentralization of authority and its delegation to local organizations.
Mechanisms for empowerment
A geographical spread to cover more people and communities and involves expansion within the same sector or stakeholder group.
Horizontal scaling-up
Increasing participation by decentralization of accountabilities and responsibilities, particularly in breaking down big programs into smaller programs/projects.
Scaling-down
It is institutional in nature in that it involves other sectors/stakeholder groups in the process of expansion.
Vertical scaling-up
A systematic process of gathering, analyzing, and utilizing pertinent data about the community.
Social investigation
Is undertaken during the pre-entry phase in order to equip the community development worker with basic information about the community.
Preliminary social investigation
A systematized documentation featuring a holistic view of the community, includes the spot map.
Tentative community profile
The ability to secure relevant information about the community.
Pakiki-balita
The ability to feel the pulse of the people, their dreams and aspiration, concerns and sentiments, needs and problems, success and failures, striving and best practices.
Pakiki-ramdam
This documentary output includes the identification of the appropriate stakeholders in the community as vital data to move on to organizing phase.
Validated community profile
Refer to situations that can serve as starting points or sparks that can bring to life a multi-stakeholders’ enlightened involvement in community development.
Entry points
This is carried out through the phase over. It signals growing and continuous genuine people’s participation on managing development initiatives, as they get involved in the systematic knowledge generation and as they use the knowledge created to improve their solution.
Deepening of Social Investigation
This takes place during the immersion phase. At this point, initial data during the PSI are validated and enriched.
Social investigation proper
The ability to engage the people in the process of individual and collective discovery of their realities, visioning, planning, taking appropriate action, evaluation, and reflection.
Pakiki-alam
The ability to enable people to develop a sense of ownership of their development programs.
Pakikisangkot
This document serves as concrete basis for the people to come up with their plan of action designed to transform their realities.
Operational community profile
The process that elevates individual reflections to shared experience of developing a collective consciousness, particularly in terms of lessons and insights.
Social learning
This model is project-oriented.
Locality development/community development
This model is agency-oriented.
Social planning
This model is conflict confrontational.
Social action
Is an approach for understanding a system by key actors or stakeholders.
Stakeholders analysis
Focusing on understanding and documenting the differences in gender roles, activities, needs, and opportunities in a given context.
Gender analysis
A tool for social analysis that focuses on the identification of dynamic interrelationships between and among the strengths and weaknesses of internal environment as well as the opportunities and threats posed by the external environment.
SWOT analysis
This is built on searching for the positive, for successes, for what works, as opposaed to problem-oriented focus of most other planning and development strategies.
Appreciative planning and action
A tool that emphasize local knowledge and enables local people to do their own appraisal, analysis, and planning.
Participatory rural appraisal
A method of producing informational materials or publications where the different stakeholders come together and engage themselves in a social process of pooling their resources and knowledge to document a subject of common significance to them and to the larger society.
Writeshop
This training releases energy and creativity from the people. It deemphasizes technical competence and permits sharing of experiences.
Participatory training
Refers to the participation of the poor and others who are disadvantaged in terms of wealth, education, ethnicity, and gender.
Popular participation
Refers to the participation of all relevant stakeholders in the development process.
Multi-stakeholders participation
Action-reflection-celebration.
Social praxis
